Draining away brain's toxic protein to stop Alzheimer's
...f their whiskers. The team is now working with a company created by Zlokovic, Socratech, to create a form of LRP-IV that could be tested in people. Zlokovic hopes to have such a product ready for testing within two years. Zlokovic, a scientist widely recognized for demonstrating that blood vessels, blood...Sports concussion research using fMRI provides insight for safe return-to-play decisions
.... ImPACT Applications, Inc., is a Pittsburgh-based company that owns and licenses the ImPACT tool. Recent years have marked exciting and important discoveries in sports concussion research but there are still many unanswered questions, said Dr. Lovell. Continued research designed to evaluate multiple par...Old McDonald's has a hold on kids' taste buds, Stanford/Packard study finds
...chose to specifically study McDonald's because the company is the largest fast-food advertiser in the United ...the McDonald's wrapper," said Robinson. "This is a company that knows what they're doing. Nobody else spends as much to advertise their fast-food products to c...From UF and IBM, a blueprint for 'smart' health care
...he technologicalstepstones to make it easy for any company to manufacture and sell smart networked devices --...icensed to Pervasa, a Gainesville-based UF spinoff company headed by Helal, the Atlas platform makes it easy to create a network of sensors and make their info...Speeding up CT scans with cellphone technology, ultrasound warning signal for breast cancer
... Wisconsin and co-founder of the radiation therapy company TomoTherapy, will present a proton-therapy design .... (stayman@xorantech.com), the Ann Arbor, MI-based company that makes the MiniCAT scanner. Using MiniCAT may provide additional advantages to the patient and p...Advocates ask fashion industry to support braille clothing tags; talking Web site
... tags, which have to be sent to a Braille printing company (and then sewn onto a garment) and the recommendation of coding your clothes with safety pins on the tags, says Abushagur. It seemed kind of outrageous that nothing has been done to help the blind and visually impaired. Talking Web site technology ...AMPAKINE compounds a new potential treatment for respiratory depression
...pecific therapeutic applications of ampakines. The company has an alliance with Organon Biosciences (soon to be part of Schering-Plough) for AMPAKINE -based treatment of schizophrenia and depression, and with Les Laboratoires Servier. The study of AMPAKINE drugs in respiratory depression opens a new chap...New drug development facility helps move medicines to market
...m of the Australian marine cone snail and Brisbane company Progen Industries Limited with a new cancer treatment that is now being tested in human trials in hospitals around the world. "Australian biotech companies, universities, research institutes and the pharmaceutical industry now have access to a hig...Herb shows potential to reduce cancer-related fatigue
... supermarket shelf consumers need to research the company and the product. Because there is less federal regulation of dietary supplements, there is no consistency in currently available products. In fact, some research has shown various supplements to contain little or no amount of the ingredient on the la...Human stem cell treatment restores motor function in paralyzed rats
...-author Karl Johe, a researcher at Neuralstem, the company that manufactures the hSSCs used in the study. In this study, we succeeded at reconstructing the neural circuitry, which had not been done before. The researchers believe that the therapy may eventually be proven even more effective in human patien...OFT's value-based pricing scheme is well-founded, but could increase overall NHS drug spend
... The consumer is unconcerned about the cost to the company for developing the item. Up until now, this has not been the case for the drug industry. Here prices have been set by the pharmaceutical price regulation scheme (PPRS) which tries to balance the cost to the NHS and profits for the pharmaceutical indu...Researchers find deadly prescription drug effects 6 years before FDA
...ugs and drug-coated cardiac stents to FDA and drug company reports. The FDA had more reports than RADAR, but RADARs reports were more complete. Pharmaceutical companies sent out safety notifications two years earlier than RADAR reported its results in journals. However, drug companies doctor notifications w...Experimental gene therapy 'abolishes' arthritis pain and lessens joint damage
...er is in the process of founding a private biotech company to develop the technology. It would search for new drugs that interfere with key inflammatory receptors on sensory nerve cells within the CNS. Joining Kyrkanides in the publication from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry w...Bronchial thermoplasty may allow severe asthma patients to wean off oral corticosteroids
..., May 23, 2007 -- Asthmatx, Inc., a medical device company that has developed a catheter-based procedure for the treatment of asthma, announced today that positive results from the Research in Severe Asthma (RISA) Trial were reported today at the annual scientific assembly of the American Thoracic Society (A...Making science personal: Lilly Oncology to unveil 76 studies at ASCO 2007
...y (ASCO) in Chicago, Ill. from June 1-5, 2007. The company will present important data on GEMZAR (gemcitabine HCl for injection), ALIMTA (pemetrexed for injection), and enzastaurin, an investigational, oral, targeted therapy. There will also be numerous studies that continue to use GEMZAR and ALIMTA as chemo...Asthmatx completes enrollment in pivotal study of bronchial thermoplasty
...CA, May 21, 2007 Asthmatx, Inc., a medical device company that has developed a catheter-based procedure for the treatment of asthma, announced today the successful completion of enrollment in its pivotal FDA approved IDE study, the Asthma Intervention Research 2 (AIR2) Trial of the Alair Bronchial Thermopla...Italian doctors get their information on medicines from drug company sales reps
...inate independent information that is free of drug company influence. The program is described in this week'...rs in Italy receive eleven visits per week by drug company sales representatives, and that many doctors believe that the information they receive from these re...Genetic marker linked to aggressive prostate cancer
...discovered by deCODE genetics, a biopharmaceutical company in Iceland, in collaboration with Catalona of Northwestern and two other research groups. That study was first reported in Nature Genetics in June, 2006. Since then, the genetic variant has been widely duplicated by prestigious genetic research gr...Ulcerative colitis sufferers find UC quite disruptive to many aspects of daily life
...ire Pharmaceuticals, a specialty biopharmaceutical company which markets UC medications LIALDA and PENTASA (m...lenges they face and the concerns they have." As a company committed to educating patients and working with physicians, Shire is developing a program that will...